TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Christian A2 - Daniel, Hans-Dieter A2 - Ochsner, Michael A2 - Hug, Sven E. T1 - Rating research performance in the humanities : an interim report on an initiative of the German Wissenschaftsrat T2 - Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures N2 - The author, a professor of English linguistics at Freiburg University, was a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) from 2006 to 2012 and, in this capacity, was involved in this advisory body’s rating and assessment activities. The present contribution focusses on issues arising in the rating of research output in the humanities and is informed by his dual perspective, as planner and organizer of the ratings undertaken by the Wissenschaftsrat and as a rated scholar in his own discipline, English and American Studies. KW - Rating KW - Humanities KW - History KW - English/American studies KW - Wissenschaftsrat (Germany) Y1 - 2016 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50626 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-506265 SN - 978-3-319-29016-4 SN - 978-3-319-29014-0 SN - 3-319-29014-2 SN - 978-3-319-80472-9 N1 - Open Access: This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. SP - 201 EP - 209 PB - Springer International Publishing - Springer CY - Cham ER -